Tonality

Tonality in the context of music can be described as the relationships between the elements of melody and harmony, tones, intervals, chords, scales, among various other components in conjunction with each other. Although the relationships between each of these aspects are characterized in terms of a hierarchical order in that one element can overtake another in a piece. In this manner the fight between the various relationships cause the creation of a layered build that exists amid a tone and it’s melodic, harmonic, and chromatic framework. When this weave of components are relative to the piece while being stable there is a tonal system, which is coherent. Also the major and minor scale systems that have a role in being members of the chromatic gamut is that system stated in itself.

            Although in a more concise sense, tonality simply refers to the major and minor scale types. The scales themselves have elements that are capable of maintaining an expected set of functional relationships. The most important relationship amidst the many that can exist is the one consisting of tonic notes and the tonic chord with the rest of the scale varying on the piece presented. The tonic is the element, which proceeds to affirm its dominance over all of the others while functioning as the ultimate point of attraction. (Both rest and resolutions in the scale).